Great Gatsby Speech

The American Dream was a very important aspect in the 1920s. To the immigrants and the citizens, it meant that they had an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity with hardwork and dedication, despite their upbringing. In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby represented the American Dream of self-made wealth and happiness. Jay Gatsby was legally named James Gatz and he “changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career” (Fitzgerald 98). He invented the name Jay Gatsby and a new life of glory and riches. His parents were “shiftless and unsuccessful” farmers who could not afford anything from his imagination. He imagined an elegant life with a big house, throwing big parties with the woman of his dreams. This was the American Dream and he wasn’t going to stop working until his goal was achieved. From a young age, Gatsby was eager to

Daisy had moved on by this time and married a man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby clearly hadn’t moved on and was still chasing a married woman. He was even foolish enough to believe that Daisy would leave Tom in a heartbeat, and that she never actually loved him. You can see Gatsby’s delusion when he tells Daisy, “’It doesn’t matter any more. Just tell him the truth—that you never loved him—and it’s all wiped out forever.’” (Fitzgerald

I wish I was a beautiful little fool, oblivious to the motives of both my lover and my husband. As I drive away with the imposter, away from the place where I would have reinserted my power and dominance and received the satisfaction of material wealth, I was blindsided and made to look like the fool I dreamed to be. Your wealth misleads the con hidden underneath your magnificent suits and the extravagant parties thrown under your leadership. Looking at you next to me, heartbroken as if I were the one that betrayed you seems absurd to me in the least. My biggest regret was not leaving Tom but, crying into your crime ridden shirts, wasting tears that could be shed for a more powerful man. Are you really the great Gatsby that others perceive

Jay Gatsby believed that to live a happy life he had to have money and a high status. Gatsby however "fails to overlook the fact the fullest kinds of pleasure come from the understanding of accomplishments"(Fahey 70) and not the flaunting of the results of his success. Gatsby foolishly tries to get the approval of every one around him but fails to see that it was slowly guiding him towards failure. Gatsby used the American Dream as a way “ to create a new self as though the self is all surface and appearance,”(Leone 127) which was a way the dream was twisted in the 1920’s.

Themes of hope, success, and wealth overpower The Great Gatsby, leaving the reader with a new way to look at the roaring twenties, showing that not everything was good in this era. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the characters in this book to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This was evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Tom and Daisy’s struggling marriage, and Gatsby expecting so much of Daisy and wanting her to be the person she once was. The theme of this novel is to acknowledge the past, but do not recreate and live in the past because then you will not be living in the present, taking advantage of new opportunities.

The written task is an eulogy speech given by Nick Carraway for Jay Gatsby’s funeral. It is based on novel for Part 3 “The Great Gatsby”. It talks about Nick’s journey with Gatsby, explaining his feelings towards Gatsby, and how it changes as he spends more time with him. It explores the character of Gatsby, explaining the social upper class at the time. Nick is also explored as an ambivalent character with conflicting view about Gatsby. In this case, he looks at the good side of Gatsby, since it is a solemn event where people who knew Gatsby such as his father, servants, and guests remember Gatsby’s life, and therefore he needs to portray Gatsby as a great man to those who have come to pay respects.

All in all, as presented through this work, Gatsby was indeed in love with Daisy for the most part, in the beginning of their relationship, but it all change when Gatsby lost Daisy and so he let himself believed that his past was the one to blame for this circumstances. It is after this, that Gatsby became rather obsessed with the idea of Daisy and having a lovely future with her, because having her meant having it all: stability, confidence, love, happiness and so on. Also, it meant that he had succeeded in life as a whole. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Chapter 9) All his life, Gatsby intended to escape

The Great Gatsby It’s hard to keep moving forward when your mind is so stuck in the past. The Great Gatsby is a story written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the perspective of this book is written through the eyes of Nick, a middle class citizen that lives next to huge mansions, one of which belongs to a Mr. Jay Gatsby. After being invited to a party Nick becomes friends with Gatsby and he soon learns that Mr. Gatsby is actually in love with Nick's cousin, Daisy. The story continues with Nick observing how Gatsby goes about getting Daisy’s attention and how their relationship plays through. Throughout the story it is made clear that Jay Gatsby is hung up on the past that he once shared with Daisy, and it’s affecting life negatively because he

Haga American Literature 14 April 2015 Marxist Criticism of The Great Gatsby Society has evolved to the point where money is the biggest factor in our lives. People spend an incredible amount of time at their workplace for that miniscule pay raise. Money also plays a role in our relationships with the people around

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald he shows Gatsby’s obsessive feelings for Daisy by all the unremarkable actions he displays, and his incapability to love someone else. It all started in autumn of 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky. Gatsby was a lieutenant in the war and Daisy was just

Ahhh The American Dream, the one entity that most people are reaching out trying to grasp. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald displays the life of America in the 1920s, “The Roaring Twenties”. The twenties were a time of prosperity for America. The Great Gatsby lived in a time of new cars, expensive parties and as some in the roaring twenties might say it was “spiffy!” The American Dream seems unattainable to some but to others, it is right around the corner. Jay Gatsby had the rags-to-riches story that hits all of us so dear. The Great Gatsby had The American Dream by working hard to get where he was. Everyone has the inner desire to do something great and achieve The American Dream. There are many routes people take in order to get there such as; inheritance, deceit, or working hard for it. It is the ideal that everyone should have the opportunity by working hard to achieve success.

“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position,”(Adams OL). The American Dream is a dream where a person lives a better, richer, and a fuller life, the American Dreams is not a dream where a person is after material prosperity, such as wealth, fancier cars, lavish homes. There is much more to the American Dream than property, wealth, and a perfect spouse and Jay Gatsby, a character in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby learns about the American Dream the hard way. Jay Gatsby of West Egg, New York was notoriously known for being extremely wealthy. Mr. Gatsby was also recognized by his extravagant parties with more than hundreds of guests. Jay Gatsby was not always known as Jay Gatsby, he was previously known for being James Gatz. Mr. Gatz was not a wealthy person and Gatz left his parents because they were poor and unsuccessful farmers to pursue a dream. James Gatz changed his name

The American Dream is defined as: the belief that through hard work and thrift, all Americans can improve their social status and achieve success. The Great Gatsby is full of the loss and hope of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby is living in his own dream while reality is right around the corner. In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is trying to live his “American Dream” but really he is not living for himself. Gatsby’s American Dream consists of; buying rich things, making people happy and making himself known to the world, and most of all getting the girl of his dreams which is Daisy.

Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream The American Dream means that by persistently working hard, one can achieve success; this is in contrast to other countries where the immigrants came from, in which one was either born into money and privilege or not, and if you weren't, there was no way of achieving this success. The American Dream eliminated the barriers between people that social class had held for centuries in Europe. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows the corruption of the American Dream from what it used to be in the past. Not only does Jay Gatsby achieve his success without hard work, but this success is not a matter of being able to achieve just like every other person. His success is just a result of the 'I

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